Video: 15 seconds, motion graphics & chaptered interviews

Publicado el 02.06.15 por admin

I) Instagram Video

For #WorldCup #Brazil2014 we have experimented with videos made for our growing Instagram audience in the sports channel.

Click to watch this video in Instagram

Other World Cup examples: I y II

And we are also including them in our Femenine Magazine: I y II (GIFs)

II) Explanatory videos We also made animated videos explaining different aspects of coming events regarding National Elections 2015.

VIDEO: Which are the documents you need to vote?

VIDEO: Which are the key dates and what do we vote?

VIDEO: Who are elegible to vote? VIDEO: Information for citizens less than 18 years old and for those that cannot vote VIDEO: How the primaries work? All you need to know about the primaries, open, simultaneous and compulsory elections.

(III) Video inverviews “Conversaciones”

Another highlight on elections reporting are interviews to candidates (presidential, governors, Buenos Aires City council) in our own newsroom. Videos have chapters for main Q&A and there is also a complete version of the conversation (around 20 minutes).

An aggregation of all Conversaciones (Conversations) project.

LA NACION DATA: Open Data Journalism for Change

Publicado el 20.05.15 por admin

LA NACION continued in 2014-2015 with its effort to use data as new raw material for journalism and to contribute to open data in Argentina while reporting or as a way to activate demand of more public information, in a country still without a FOI Law.

After another year of training and consistency in the data project of LA NACION, opportunities of new projects appeared. We continued reporting from datasets built from scratch and then transformed, opened and shared by our team in print, online and social media.

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Public officials salaries and assets for reporting and accountability

Publicado el 08.06.14 por Momi Peralta Ramos

“Click to access to Statements of Assets integrated Tag”

LA NACION decided to fight for transparency in public officials salaries and declaration of assets as we feel that even in a country without FOIA, journalism and citizens must know and share what they know about how politicians earn their money, and how they compare with others or with other periods. This is a tool that is also helping detect cases of corruption, regarding public spending and companies owned by official´s relatives or friends.

To aggregate stories, we integrated the news application with the open dataset and Lanacion.com´s CMS using a TAG that gathers all the stories that are coming out about these Declarations of Assets or salaries of the president and ministers we also requested and opened .

Main stories and data: Seguir leyendo →

Argentina´s Senate Expenses 2004-2013

Publicado el 08.06.14 por Momi Peralta Ramos

Extracting stories from public DATA formerly unstructured and in PDFs.

After finding out that Senate have published expenses since 2004 in raw PDFs, some of them as images and completely unstructured, LA NACION data team managed to scrape, transform, normalize and structure three datasets into one and began an interrogation process that included front page stories, replies from actual and former Argentina´s vice presidents (Senate presidents), and provoked a judicial investigation over vicepresident Amado Boudou regarding these expenses. This series of front page stories lead to more stories and different approaches to keep Senate accountable.

As we converted these PDFs into OCR txt files, we realized that we have lots of information lost as a consecuence of very noisy PDF´s. Besides, we realized that there would be more stories if more eyes helped us classify and enter this data. So we decided to ask for help: inspired in The Guardian MP´s Expenses and Propublica´s Free the Files, we asked our Knight-Mozilla Opennews Fellow 2013 Manuel Aristaran to help us develop “Vozdata” a platform for Crowdsourcing data in a structured way .

He developed “Crowdata” working together with Gabriela Rodriguez our Opennews Fellow 2014. We launched our first “Senate Expenses Vozdata project with a dataset of more than 6700 PDFs that took two months to be processed.

To fulfill that, again we asked for collaboration and activated our community organizing two “Civic Marathons” with NGO´s , Universities and users. See all the details here.

At the same time, one of our journalists heard that in Senate there had been a big growth of the amount of employees and as our data team has been scraping during 30 months (since november 2011), the lists of Senate permanent, temporary and contracted employees, we could release a unique and original analysis that became a new finding sustained with data and visualizations. In this period , senate employees and contracted went from 3.700 to 5.700 which meant a 55% of growth. Again, our vice president Amado Boudou replied to these articles using the official channel in national TV , but he could not deny any of the numbers on the reporting.

Here are the details, data collection and data analysis process and the articles and visualizations.

Regarding all the Senate Expenses stories, as they were many and some of them are still in judicial investigations, we decided to put them all together in a Tag home page

http://www.lanacion.com.ar/gastos-en-el-senado-t49163

So here is the process and how we did this , together with new stories:

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Thanks to building this dataset from scratch and analysing dates, we also found out that some expenses of official trips were presented with dates that were overlapped and even included some trips that were not made. Seguir leyendo →

2013 Legislative Elections in Argentina

Publicado el 07.06.14 por Momi Peralta Ramos

Introduction

LA NACIÓN produced a multimedia and multiplatform coverage of the 2013 parliamentary elections with a focus on innovation through database journalism as the fundamental tool to show the contents in a new way and to present the information transparently for the electorate and citizens in general.

To add value to the press coverage and not repeat classical approaches, the 2013 Elections project included the development of different interactive and research pieces using data as the primary source.

These contents were included/ grouped in a specific item of the coverage called The electoral magnifying glass (La lupa electoral). Journalists from both platforms (online/paper) worked on the productions of this category. In fact, many of the works published in this space were generated by editors that were in the Data Journalism Program, a LA NACIÓN special training program for its journalists. The project lasted 6 months. 15 people participated. It was an internal challenge for the company, since it implied the integration and the joint work of the paper and online staff, the LNData team, and the Product and Marketing areas.

Real Time Data Generating and Analysis

Elections 2013 from lndata

Election 2013 case summary projects: Seguir leyendo →

The 30 years of Democracy in Argentina´s Anniversary

Publicado el 05.06.14 por Momi Peralta Ramos

Recent history of Argentina changed completely on sunday 30th, 1983. Raúl Alfonsin won the elections and became president which meant, returning to democracy and ending the period of military dictatorship.

To cover this anniversary LA NACION developed a transmedia experience that allowed users simulate a real time elections coverage with digital platforms but using the 1983 original content.

They could experience in real time, 30 years later, this historical elections. This implied an intense research work into our archives, together with multimedia and other materials so as to offer context information like social movements during the weeks previous to the elections, the TV and radio spots and caimpaign ads from Raul Alfonsin , and the newspaper´s front pages.

For us it was a different way to live again this special moment, using present technologies but not in a traditional digital coverage that would be a secuential one way production. This simulated coverage was live from October 19th to November 1st, 2013, based in a narrative that was spread by social media.

Revive history, in real time

Through the Twitter account @LNvoto83 https://twitter.com/LNvoto83 the coverage published exclusive documents that were crucial to simulate those days in real time and transport users throuth time. All this tuits were published with the hashtag #Voto83.